Trust and confidence are fast eroding among Gambians because nobody appears to know who to trust and confide in. In this era of the rat race and stampede of life, trust and confidence are becoming short in supply.
In their quest for personal fulfillment, many will not think twice about bringing someone down to reach their destinations in life.
We have seen how marriages disintegrated, how people were sacked from their jobs, and how people’s reputations were besmirched because somebody or some people wished that they would not be happy in life.
Many of our people are suffering in silence because someone or some people somewhere decided that they should not know peace.
As CG Darboe rightly put it, we bury each other alive. We cause each other physical, emotional, and financial trauma.
No nation can develop and thrive without the alignment of hearts. We need to purify our hearts to be able to achieve our wishes and aspirations as a people.
Let us unite as one people and work towards our collective interest and that should be about taking The Gambia to another level of development.
No entity or nation-state can progress without unity of hearts, wishes and aspirations for the common good.